Earth Day event April 24: Friends of the Hylebos and Federal Way will host an Earth Day celebration and event 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 24, mobilizing volunteers to remove invasive English Ivy from the city’s trees and forests. Volunteers and sponsors needed. Contact: chinook@hylebos.org.

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Forests to the Bay event April 17: Citizens for a Healthy Bay and Friends of the Hylebos will celebrate their new partnership and the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (April 22) by holding “Forests to the Bay” community restoration events to help protect the forests and wetlands of Hylebos Creek and natural habitat along the shoreline of Commencement Bay. The event will run 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at the Middle Waterway restoration site, 711 E. 11th St., Tacoma. After breakfast snacks, volunteers of all ages will visit education stations to learn about the different aspects of habitat restoration. Then they will have the chance to engage in hands-on work removing invasive plants and planting native ones. The first 50 volunteers will win a free tree and TAGRO potting mix; and everyone will be served lunch. To register, call Jeanine Riss at (253) 383-2429 or e-mail jriss@healthybay.org